http://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/05/10/magic-flute-
zips-but-also-overruns-spirit-of-mozart/
SEATTLE – It is one thing to attempt to present Mozart’s *The Magic Flute* as
an ultra-entertaining visual spectacle, complete with gorgeous costumes and
English surtitles with clever contemporary references. But when musical
values are sacrificed, as they were in Seattle Opera’s
<https://www.seattleopera.org/on-stage/the-magic-flute/> revisit of this
2011 production of Mozart’s oft-sublime masterpiece, the results are only
intermittently satisfying.
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Jason Victor Serinus http://www.jasonserinus.com Whistler
Extraordinaire: **The Voice of Woodstock • The Pavarotti of Pucker**
Music and audiophile critic: Seattle Times, Port Townsend Leader,
Stereophile, Listen, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area Reporter, Gay
City News, American Record Guide, Classical Voice North America, Stanford
Live, Opera Now, Copper, and more
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tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel
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we will not be silenced, we will not be stopped, we will not go back into
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